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KANPUR: All nine districts of Kanpur zone will take Google's help to move away from "reactive policing" to "preventive policing" for reducing crime in the city. All the 176 police stations falling under Kanpur zone would feed last ten year's crime date to Google and then after identifying crime sensitive areas on Google Maps , police check-posts and pickets will be set up in each of those areas. The 'preventive policing' initiative would begin from first week of July, nine districts of Kanpur zone including Kanpur (city)

KANPUR: BJP would be launching a website for Kanpur where people's opinion will be sought on how to make the industrial city pollution-free. BJP's Kanpur unit President Surendra Maithani today said that the website will have all information related to various projects undertaken for the people in the city and how they are making progress. The website will have the personal contacts of all party leaders and ministers so that people can contact them and convey their problems, he said.

KANPUR: Amidst sweltering heat and facing long spells of power cut, city traders confront facing loss and opposition BJP has accused the ruling SP government for the dismal situation here. BJP has come down heavily on the ruling Samajwadi Party , blaming it for the long outages to avenge the party's defeat in the recently held Lok Sabha polls. Kanpur district BJP president, Surendra Maithani said that Kanpur has five SP MLAs including two ministers in the state cabinet.

KANPUR: IIT-Kanpur on Tuesday unveiled its second supercomputer, which ranks fifth in the country in terms of performance and is considered the best for educational institutions. The machine, assembled at IIT-Kanpur by a team headed by the institute's deputy director SC Srivastava, was unveiled by him along with Ashish Dutta, head of the computer centre. They said the supercomputer would be used for regular education , research and training purposes. "Supercomputers are used in many areas of science and engineering research," said Dutta.

KANPUR: The non-inclusion of senior BJP leader and Kanpur MP Murli Manohar Joshi in Narendra Modi's Cabinet has left party leaders and workers here disappointed. "We are disappointed that Murli Manohar Joshi did not get a Cabinet berth. He is such a senior leader, he should have got at least one ministry," said BJP legislator Salil Bishnoi. "However, despite not getting a Cabinet seat, Joshi is taking interest in the problems of Kanpur. When he got to know that the city faces 10-hour power cuts, he called me in the morning and told me to meet officials of the electricity department regarding the issue.

KANPUR: Taking note of the perpetual power cuts that are adding to the woes of Kanpur residents, BJP has threatened to stage a protest if the situation is not improved by the Kanpur Electricity Supply Company Ltd. BJP Kanpur President Surendra Maithani has sent a warning to the MD of Kanpur Electricity Supply Company Ltd (KESCO) saying if the situation of the power cuts is not improved, their party will stage protests. "The residents are facing problems due to undeclared power cuts for 10-12 hours.

KANPUR: The prestigious Kanpur Lok Sabha seat which goes to polls tomorrow will decide the fate of 21 candidates including the three-time sitting Congress MP Shriprakash Jaiswal , veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi , SP's Surendra Mohan Agrawal and Salim Ahmed of BSP. The Election Commission has set up around 1,480 polling booths. Twenty-one candidates are in the fray. A total of 16,10,615 voters, including 7,21,710 women voters are eligible to exercise their franchise, election officials said.

KANPUR: While the rest of Uttar Pradesh has a significant presence of Narendra Modi on hoardings, Kanpur is an aberration. Here, even at the BJP office in Naveen Market, images of Murli Manohar Joshi that welcome you, and supporters are quick to point out to a bevy of pictures of senior RSS leaders. "'Bharat Maa Ki Teen Dharohar — Atal, Advani Aur Manohar'; Kanpur is very fortunate to have a senior leader like Joshiji," a party member said, instantly adding, "Modi's leher here is going to make him win with a big majority.

KANPUR: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's election rally scheduled for today in the city was cancelled due to a death in his family. The rally scheduled at 10 am in the city's Parade Ground was to be held in support of SP's Kanpur candidate Surendra Mohan Agrawal . Agrawal later made the announcement at the venue that due to a death in the chief minister's family, the rally has been cancelled.